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AUTHOR: Jenny Lawson
PUBLISHER: Putnam
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 2012
PAGES: 318
ISBN: 9780399159015
AWARDS: Audie Award Nominee, Goodreads Choice Award for Humor (2012)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
by Jenny Lawson
Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.”
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Author Jenny Lawson identifies as bisexual.
QUOTES
“Because you are defined not by life’s imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing – rather than running from – the utter absurdity of life.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me “weird” and “different,” were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“You should just accept who you are, flaws and all, because if you try to be someone you aren’t, then eventually some turkey is going to shit all over your well-crafted facade, so you might as well save yourself the effort and enjoy your zombie books.”
― Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
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